Reaching back 400 years, "Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia" is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals about American society--revelations not accessible through traditional sources and methods.
In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts, concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and cultures, cultural productions, historical forces, periods and styles, religious and secular rituals and traditions, and much more. Everyone from researchers and curators to students and general readers will find example after example of how...
Reaching back 400 years, "Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia" is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals abou...
On Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun together--without the kids. But -getting a sitter---especially a dependable one--rarely seems trouble-free. Will the kids be safe with -that girl-? It's a question that discomfited parents have been asking ever since the emergence of the modern American teenage girl nearly a century ago. In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history.
Informed by her research on the history of teenage girls' culture,...
On Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun together--without the kids. But -getting a sitter---especially a dependable one--rarely see...
Princesses today are significant figures in girls culture in the United States and around the world. Although the reign of girls princess culture has generated intense debate, this anthology is the first to bring together international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the multitude of princess cultures, continuously redrawn and recast by grownups and girls from the Ancien Regime to the New Millennium. Essays critically examine the gendered, racialized, classed, and ethnic meanings of royal figures and fairytale and pop culture princesses inscribed in folk tales, movies, cartoons, video...
Princesses today are significant figures in girls culture in the United States and around the world. Although the reign of girls princess culture has ...
Dolls are the focus of this pioneering anthology establishing Dolls Studies as an interdisciplinary field of scholarly inquiry. This work revises conventional understandings of what constitutes a doll; broadens the age range to include female adolescents, women and others; locates dolls in untraditional contexts; and utilizes new methodological practices and theoretical frameworks. Placing dolls at the center of analysis reveals how critical girls' toys are in the making - and undoing - of racial, ethnic, national, religious, sexual, class, and gender ideologies and identities. Catharine...
Dolls are the focus of this pioneering anthology establishing Dolls Studies as an interdisciplinary field of scholarly inquiry. This work revises conv...
